and my HBO/Showtime streams are always from Showtime or HBO since I hate the BoxNation or the Primetime guys who show it with their commentary, I always avoid this and have a HBO/Showtime US stream 99.99% of the time.

So why pay? You can get same thing for free. The only thing I noticed with free streams is that when it comes down to PPV's, its hard to find a good HBO PPV stream and instead its usually the UK commentary, but 90% of times for PPV's theres a decent US stream going.